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Daily review 17/06/2024
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Plane at Queenstown hit some birds on take off and scared the locals with backfiring and flames coming out of one of the engines. Has safely landed in Invercargill. Dude on twitter was on the plane,
https://x.com/DrawyahYT/status/1802598558107115838
It went over us well below the normal height and making a frightful noise. Glad they got it on the ground safely in Invercargill.
Have seen reports that it was a bird strike. First one in 30 years of jet operations at Queenstown Airport.
what sort of bird is it likely to be given it was after dark?
Ducks and geese will fly after dark so would be my number one suspects.
that makes sense. Kind of surprised it doesn't happen more often.
Most likely a spur-winged plover.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/108007594/spurwinged-plovers-greatest-risk-of-bird-strike
Wasn't quite dark, but getting there.
Could have been a duck, or more likely Spurwing Plover, they ar quite active at night up here
The language has gone to 'suspected bird strike' this morning. On the day birdstrike sounds better to the punters than "our engine blew up"
Excellent work by the crew, and all that put the operating procedures together that they followed to deal with this situation. Everyone earned their salary last night.
My brother the fly boy reckons plovers are the dimwits of the bird world. They make landing/takeoff particularly perilous because they roost in numbers on warm tarmac and take flight at the very last moment.
Was watching Frankton recede out the window one day and a pair of plovers went either side of the wing outboard of engine. Heart in mouth for a second.
'Right that they're not the brightest sparks of the avian world, and an attitude problem, noisy antisocial things.
There's also "light-pollution" that allows birds to fly. Around Zealandia you will always hear Kakas flying at night.
Kaka are active at night in the bush, but I take your point.